The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autorentext

David Boucher (University of Wales, Swansea), Paul Kelly (London School of Economics)

Klappentext

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhalt

List of contributors, Preface, 1. The social contract and its critics: an overview, 2. Hobbes's contractarianism: a comparative analysis, 3. John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology, 4. Locke's contract in context, 5. History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories, 6. Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, 7. Kant on the social contract, 8. Hegel's critique of the theory of social contract, 9. Marx against the social contract, 10. Contractarianism and international political theory, 11. Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations, 12. Gauthier's contractarian morality, 13. Justifying 'justice': rianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism, 14. Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls's difference principle, Index